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Grade 10 Sample Lesson Plan: Unit 7 – Be Smart with Smartphones (& Screens)
SOLs
10.2. L Evaluate the value of exercising self-control 10.3. L Plan health-promoting strategies for managing personal technology use Objectives/Goals
• The student will analyze the influence of technology on health, recognize ways tech designers hook users, and strategize to find balance.
• The student will practice and reflect on limiting screen time and smartphone use.
Materials
• Screentime, Smartphones and You Slideshow • Digital Detox worksheet
Procedure
Instant Activity - As students walk into class get them to think about and reflect on the following statement. Turn to someone sitting next to you and share both the positive and negative aspects of technology in your personal lives.
Or...Ask students if they would rather have a broken phone or a broken bone? This can be a fun discussion starter
Technology is good...to a point. Let students know that today we are going to examine how screens and smartphones impact our lives for better or for worse. In the end,
• technology in moderation is okay and working on self-control with our relationship with technology is important when it comes to our health.
Hook - Show the Video “How Many People Can’t Walk Without Their Smartphone” https://youtu.be/pxlIE7fc-Vs
Ask students: What part of this video resonated with you? Did anything shock you? Do you think human beings have a “Screentime or Smartphone Addiction Problem?”
Next, play this Kahoot - “Are you addicted to your phone?” to get an idea of your students’
experiences with personal technology. Here are the 7 questions: • How much time do you spend using an electronic device each day? • What form of social media do you use the most often? • Do you check your phone in class or while studying and doing your homework? • Do you spend more time interacting with your friends in person or on social
media? • How difficult would it be for you to spend a weekend without using your phone or
social media? • Do you regularly spend screen-free quality time with your family? • Are you addicted to your phone?
Next, show students this PBS Newshour Story about Teens and Technology (https://youtu.be/WCT5JcCXMPw). (8 mins) The clip shares a story about the documentary ‘Screenagers’ which explores the complex lives teenagers have with their phones as well as their friends. After the clip, ask your students what part of the clip resonated with them? Were there parts they agreed with? Disagreed with?
Next, show students this clip from PBS about “Teens being tethered to their phones” (https://youtu.be/mDjII0aOCAY )(3 mins). One student said that she “could not imagine a world without technology.” Do you agree or disagree? Why? Discuss as a class.
Depending on the length of your class period, now would be a good time for students to get out of their seat and do a quick Sit/Stand Kinesthetic activity to the following statements. Stand if…
• Reflexively grab your phone at the first hint of boredom throughout the day. • Think you check your phone more than once every hour. • Spend more time on your phone in class than talking to peers. • Use extra time given in class to actually get work done instead of being on device for
socializing or games. • Use my phone in more than 50% of my classes on a regular basis for non-school use.
Tell students it is important to understand the HOW and WHY screens/phones impact our brains (especially as teenagers). This is extremely important to being able to better
regulate and exhibit self-control and ultimately impact our health in a “more healthy” way.
Using the slideshow, show a series of 5 short clips from the documentary Screenagers • Clip 1 - The Brain & Screens 1. The brain is wired to have seeking behaviors. A pleasure
producing chemical called dopamine is released when we experience new things. Hormones intensify the experience of pleasure. There is more dopamine activity in the adolescent brain’s reward center than at any other point of development. Questions to consider for discussion or reflection: According to the video clip, our brains are wired to have “seeking behaviors”. What chemical is released during these new experiences? How does dopamine make us feel? As it relates to dopamine, why might teens be more susceptible to phone addictions than adults?
• Clip 2 - The Brain & Screens 2. The pre-frontal cortex is responsible for self-control. The pre-frontal cortex does not fully develop until about age 25 in most people. Self- control is a better predictor of success in school than intelligence. Teens who have strong self-control do better in school, have better relationships, and are happier in general. Questions for discussion or reflection: Why is it difficult for so many teens to exhibit strong self-control? What part of the brain is responsible for self-control?
• Clip 3 - Relationships & Screens - Many teens use their screen to hide and avoid anxiety. When they are together and their phones are out, they talk about what is on their phones. When you are distracted by your device you can’t have the conversations that would lead to the development of empathy and a sense of self. According to Simon Sinek, when forming relationships, making eye-contact really really matters. “Digital is good for the maintenance, but not the building.” Questions for discussion or reflection: Why do you think face-to-face conversations are important? Simon Sinek talked about how making eye contact is really important when forming relationships. What do you think he meant when he said, “Digital is good for the maintenance, but not the building.”
• Clip 4 - Technology’s impact on health - Here you can ask students what they think about technology’s impact on our health. The pros, cons, etc. Sherry Turkle said, “Our devices don’t just change what we do, they change who we are.” What does she mean by this statement? Do you think we are letting technology take us places that we do not necessarily want to go? (i.e. - impacts us in a less healthy way)
• Clip 5 - Technology and Relationships - Questions to consider: Would you rather text than talk in person? Why or why not? There is a growing concern that people are spending less time communicating face-to-face to others and that many people have a feeling that “no one is listening.” Do you think technology can actually make us more isolated than connected? How so? If time, or if you want to extend the conversation even deeper, here are some more
questions and/or ideas to explore:
• Do we need to practice talking to others in “real time” and in person? Are we packing our minds too full and increasing our stress?
• Are we hurting our personal relationships more than helping them? • What are we missing out on when we are texting, tweeting, snapchatting those
moments away? • Are we less creative because we don’t allow ourselves to be bored? • What germs are on my phone? (share slide 28)
Digital Detox Activity - In an effort to have a healthy and balanced relationship with technology, tell them that their task is to complete as many of the Digital Detox Challenges in the assignment. Initial each square once you complete the challenge. Give students maybe a week to complete the challenge and then have them reflect on their experience.
Possible Extension Activities
• Students should create their own brief but spectacular video interviewing their peers about technology use. Do their peers’ views differ from those in the video linked above?
• Have students download the Moment app, which tracks cell phone usage, and use their phone normally for several days. Are students surprised by the amount of time that they actually spend on their phones? Why? Will this information change their future behavior? Discuss as a class.
• Read the following New York Times article: ‘Addicted to Distraction.’ How has technology affected users’ concentration and productivity? Is a “technology detox” feasible in today’s society? Would you be willing to try one? Discuss as a class.
• Have the class read the article from Choices Magazine - Are You Addicted to Your Phone? • Internet Addiction Test (from Irresistible book) Select the response that best represents the frequency of each behavior listed using the
scale below: o 0 = Not applicable o 1 = rarely o 2 = Occasionally o 3 = Frequently o 4 = Often o 5 = Always Questions: -How often do you find that you stay online longer than you intended? -How often do others in your life complain to you about the amount of time you spend
online?
Health Smart Virginia Sample Lesson Plan Grade 10 – Unit 7
-How often do you check your email or social media before something else that you need to do?
-How often do you lose sleep because of late night log-ins? -How often do you find yourself saying “just a few minutes” when online?
Results: -If you scored 7 or below, you show no signs of Internet addiction. -A score of 8-12 suggests mild Internet addiction -- you may spend too long on the
web sometimes but you’re generally in control of your usage. -A score of 13-20 indicates moderate Internet addiction, which implies that your
relationship with the Internet is causing you “occasional or frequent problems.” -A score between 21 and 25 suggests severe Internet addiction and implies that
the Internet is causing “significant problems in your life.”
References
• Parts of the lesson adapted from PBS NewsHour Extra • PBS News Hour - Your Phone is Trying to Control Your Life • Screenagers Documentary, 2016 • Center for Humane Technology - http://humanetech.com/ • 60 Minutes - Brain Hacking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAMTQZmvPE • Irresistible - Adam Alter - The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of
Keeping Us Hooked (2018) • PBS NewsHour Article - Teens are Addicted to Their Cellphones and They Need Our
Help • The Atlantic - Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (2017) • Choices Magazine, Feb 2018 - Are You Addicted to Your Phone? • Andy Horne, 2015 National Health Teacher of the Year
Handout The next page includes a handout for the lesson. The handout is designed for print use only.
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Name __________________________________________________
Digital Detox Challenge
Directions - In an effort to have a healthy and balanced relationship with technology, your task is to complete as many of the Digital Detox Challenges below. Initial each square once you complete the challenge. Good luck!
Remain tech free for
one hour
Have a face-to-face
conversation without your phone in sight
When eating lunch with friends, keep
your phone off/out of sight
Turn off all tech at
least one hour before bedtime
Put your phone in airplane mode for
two hours
Turn off all
notifications for one full day
Download the
Moment app and limit your total screen time to less than two hours
today
Go Cold Turkey -
Delete all social media apps from your phone
Play video games for
one hour or less today
Go an entire day
without using your social media
Delete at least one
social media app from your phone
Remain tech free for
an entire day!
Watch one hour or less of TV or videos
today
Leave your phone in another room while you are doing your
homework
Keep your homescreen to tools
only (ex: maps, calendar, calculator)
When having a meal with family or friends,
have everyone put their phone away
Send less than 10 messages in a day
Charge your phone in another place besides
your bedroom
Engage in small talk
with someone in public or before class,
rather than check your phone
Logout of your social
media apps
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Digital Detox Reflection
1. What surprised you the most during this Digital Detox Challenge? Explain.
2. What were some of the easy things for you to complete? What was easy about it or why was it easy?
3. What were some of the hardest things for you to complete during this challenge? What was hard about it or why was it hard?
4. How many of these behavioral challenges could you adopt moving forward? List them
here.
5. Before this lesson, I knew the following about my relationship with technology…
6. During this lesson, I learned the following…
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7. As a result of this lesson, how will you interact with technology (particularly your phone and screens) going forward? Will anything change for you?
Addicted to Technology - By Tony Schwartz - Nov. 28, 2015 – NY Times Opinion ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. I simply couldn’t marshal the necessary focus. I was horrified. All my life, reading books has been a deep and consistent source of pleasure, learning and solace. Now the books I regularly purchased were piling up ever higher on my bedside table, staring at me in silent rebuke. Instead of reading them, I was spending too many hours online, checking the traffic numbers for my company’s website, shopping for more colorful socks on Gilt and Rue La La, even though I had more than I needed, and even guiltily clicking through pictures with irresistible headlines such as “Awkward Child Stars Who Grew Up to Be Attractive.” During the workday, I checked my email more times than I cared to acknowledge, and spent far too much time hungrily searching for tidbits of new information about the presidential campaign, with the election then still more than a year away. “The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention,” Nicholas Carr explains in his book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.” “We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus, the division of our attention and the fragmentation of our thoughts, in return for the wealth of compelling or at least diverting information we receive.” Addiction is the relentless pull to a substance or an activity that becomes so compulsive it ultimately interferes with everyday life. By that definition, nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet. It has arguably replaced work itself as our most socially sanctioned addiction.
According to one recent survey, the average white-collar worker spends about six hours a day on email. That doesn’t count time online spent shopping, searching or keeping up with social media. The brain’s craving for novelty, constant stimulation and immediate gratification creates something called a “compulsion loop.” Like lab rats and drug addicts, we need more and more to get the same effect. Endless access to new information also easily overloads our working memory. When we reach cognitive overload, our ability to transfer learning to long-term memory significantly deteriorates. It’s as if our brain has become a full cup of water and anything more poured into it starts to spill out. I’ve known all of this for a long time. I started writing about it 20 years ago. I teach it to clients every day. I just never really believed it could become so true of me. Denial is any addict’s first defense. No obstacle to recovery is greater than the infinite capacity to rationalize our compulsive behaviors. After years of feeling I was managing
myself reasonably well, I fell last winter into an intense period of travel while also trying to manage a growing consulting business. In early summer, it suddenly dawned on me that I wasn’t managing myself well at all, and I didn’t feel good about it. Beyond spending too much time on the Internet and a diminishing attention span, I wasn’t eating the right foods. I drank way too much diet soda. I was having a second cocktail at night too frequently. I was no longer exercising every day, as I had nearly all my life. In response, I created an irrationally ambitious plan. For the next 30 days, I would attempt to right these behaviors, and several others, all at once. It was a fit of grandiosity. I recommend precisely the opposite approach every day to clients. But I rationalized that no one is more committed to self-improvement than I am. These behaviors are all related. I can do it. The problem is that we humans have a very limited reservoir of will and discipline. We’re far more likely to succeed by trying to change one behavior at a time, ideally at the same time each day, so that it becomes a habit, requiring less and less energy to sustain. I did have some success over those 30 days. Despite great temptation, I stopped drinking diet soda and alcohol altogether. (Three months later I’m still off diet soda.) I also gave up sugar and carbohydrates like chips and pasta. I went back to exercising regularly.
I failed completely in just one behavior: cutting back my time on the Internet. My initial commitment was to limit my online life to checking email just three times a day: When I woke up, at lunchtime and before I went home at the end of the day. On the first day, I succeeded until midmorning, and then completely broke down. I was like a sugar addict trying to resist a cupcake while working in a bakery. What broke my resolve that first morning was the feeling that I absolutely had to send someone an email about an urgent issue. If I just wrote it and pushed “Send,” I told myself, then I wasn’t really going online. What I failed to take into account was that new emails would download into my inbox while I wrote my own. None of them required an immediate reply, and yet I found it impossible to resist peeking at the first new message that carried an enticing subject line. And the second. And the third. In a matter of moments, I was back in a self-reinforcing cycle. By the next day, I had given up trying to cut back my digital life. I turned instead to the simpler task of resisting diet soda, alcohol and sugar. Even so, I was determined to revisit my Internet challenge. Several weeks after my 30-day experiment ended, I left town for a monthlong vacation. Here was an opportunity to
focus my limited willpower on a single goal: liberating myself from the Internet in an attempt to regain control of my attention. I had already taken the first step in my recovery: admitting my powerlessness to disconnect. Now it was time to detox. I interpreted the traditional second step — belief that a higher power could help restore my sanity — in a more secular way. The higher power became my 30-year-old daughter, who disconnected my phone and laptop from both my email and the Web. Unburdened by much technological knowledge, I had no idea how to reconnect either one. I did leave myself reachable by text. In retrospect, I was holding on to a digital life raft. Only a handful of people in my life communicate with me by text. Because I was on vacation, they were largely members of my family, and the texts were mostly about where to meet up at various points during the day. During those first few days, I did suffer withdrawal pangs, most of all the hunger to call up Google and search for an answer to some question that arose. But with each passing day offline, I felt more relaxed, less anxious, more able to focus and less hungry for the next shot of instant but short-lived stimulation. What happened to my brain is exactly what I hoped would happen: It began to quiet down. I had brought more than a dozen books of varying difficulty and length on my vacation. I started with short nonfiction, and then moved to longer nonfiction as I began to feel calmer and my focus got stronger. I eventually worked my way up to “The Emperor of All Maladies,” Siddhartha Mukherjee’s brilliant but sometimes complex biography of cancer, which had sat on my bookshelf for nearly five years. As the weeks passed, I was able to let go of my need for more facts as a source of gratification. I shifted instead to novels, ending my vacation by binge-reading Jonathan Franzen’s 500-some-page novel, “Purity,” sometimes for hours at a time. I am back at work now, and of course I am back online. The Internet isn’t going away, and it will continue to consume a lot of my attention. My aim now is to find the best possible balance between time online and time off. I do feel more in control. I’m less reactive and more intentional about where I put my attention. When I’m online, I try to resist surfing myself into a stupor. As often as possible, I try to ask myself, “Is this really what I want to be doing?” If the answer is no, the next question is, “What could I be doing that would feel more productive, or satisfying, or relaxing?” I also make it my business now to take on more fully absorbing activities as part of my days. Above all, I’ve kept up reading books, not just because I love them, but also as a continuing attention-building practice.
I’ve retained my longtime ritual of deciding the night before on the most important thing I can accomplish the next morning. That’s my first work activity most days, for 60 to 90 minutes without interruption. Afterward, I take a 10- to 15-minute break to quiet my mind and renew my energy. If I have other work during the day that requires sustained focus, I go completely offline for designated periods, repeating my morning ritual. In the evening, when I go up to my bedroom, I nearly always leave my digital devices downstairs. Finally, I feel committed now to taking at least one digital-free vacation a year. I have the rare freedom to take several weeks off at a time, but I have learned that even one week offline can be deeply restorative. Occasionally, I find myself returning to a haunting image from the last day of my vacation. I was sitting in a restaurant with my family when a man in his early 40s came in and sat down with his daughter, perhaps 4 or 5 years old and adorable. Almost immediately, the man turned his attention to his phone. Meanwhile, his daughter was a whirlwind of energy and restlessness, standing up on her seat, walking around the table, waving and making faces to get her father’s attention. Except for brief moments, she didn’t succeed and after a while, she glumly gave up. The silence felt deafening. Tony Schwartz is the chief executive of The Energy Project, a consulting firm, and the author, most recently, of “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working.” A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 29, 2015, on Page SR1 of the New York edition with the headline: Addicted to Distraction. \
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ng
ou
t w
ith
fr
ien
ds,
exe
rcis
ing
at s
po
rts
pra
ctic
e, f
inis
hin
g h
om
ewo
rk, a
nd
cat
chin
g u
p w
ith
par
ents
are
al
l im
po
rtan
t el
emen
ts o
f su
cces
s. K
ids
wh
o a
re
con
sid
ered
tro
ub
lem
aker
s n
eed
th
ese
thin
gs ju
st
as m
uch
as
the
rest
of
us—
may
be
even
mo
re. S
o
wh
y w
aste
th
eir
tim
e w
ith
an
ho
ur
of
con
fin
emen
t at
sch
oo
l?
NO
(c
ontin
ued)
n
oth
ing—
they
’re
thin
kin
g. A
nd
in m
ost
ca
ses,
th
ey’r
e th
inki
ng
abo
ut
wh
at t
hey
did
to
get
in
to t
his
sit
uat
ion
an
d h
ow
th
ey w
ill n
ever
do
it a
gain
. W
hy?
Bec
ause
bei
ng
forc
ed t
o s
it
in d
eten
tio
n r
eall
y is
, wel
l, aw
ful.
Fo
r te
ens,
tim
e an
d f
reed
om
are
tw
o o
f o
ur
mo
st c
riti
cal a
nd
bel
ove
d
reso
urc
es. D
eten
tio
n t
akes
aw
ay b
oth
. T
ime
do
esn
’t s
imp
ly s
top
wh
en y
ou
get
in
tro
ub
le—
so w
hil
e yo
u’r
e lo
cked
aw
ay in
a
clas
sro
om
, yo
u’r
e m
issi
ng
ou
t o
n li
fe. N
ow
, w
hen
yo
u g
et h
om
e, y
ou
’ll o
nly
hav
e en
ou
gh t
ime
to f
inis
h y
ou
r h
om
ewo
rk, e
at d
inn
er, a
nd
go
to
b
ed. M
ean
wh
ile,
yo
ur
frie
nd
s ar
e o
ut
hav
ing
fun
. T
he
resu
lt is
maj
or
FO
MO
: Wh
o w
ants
to
mis
s o
ut
on
an
ep
ic
adve
ntu
re
wit
h f
rien
ds—
or
just
a n
orm
al
nig
ht
of
han
gin
g o
ut—
bec
ause
he’
s st
uck
in a
ro
om
, th
inki
ng
ove
r a
bad
dec
isio
n?
No
w,
the
nex
t ti
me
he’
s ch
oo
sin
g b
etw
een
rig
ht
and
wro
ng,
he’
ll th
ink
twic
e b
efo
re p
icki
ng
the
op
tio
n t
hat
wil
l sen
d h
im r
igh
t b
ack
to d
eten
tio
n.
Det
enti
on
can
als
o f
orc
e ki
ds
to
mis
s o
ut
on
aft
er-s
cho
ol a
ctiv
itie
s. W
hat
if
yo
u h
ave
spo
rts
pra
ctic
e to
get
to
? M
any
coac
hes
wo
uld
be
dis
app
oin
ted
or
even
fu
rio
us
if y
ou
mis
sed
pra
ctic
e b
ecau
se y
ou
’d m
ade
an
imm
atu
re c
ho
ice
and
go
t se
nt
to d
eten
tio
n. T
hat
m
akes
det
enti
on
a s
oli
d d
eter
ren
t: F
acin
g th
e w
rath
of
an a
ngr
y co
ach
is ju
st n
ot
wo
rth
it.
DEB
ATE
In t
his
gen
erat
ion
, bo
red
om
is
on
e o
f th
e w
ors
t th
ings
th
at w
e ca
n e
xper
ien
ce—
wh
ich
mak
es it
th
e p
erfe
ct p
un
ish
men
t. B
ein
g fo
rced
to
just
sit
wit
h y
ou
r th
ou
ghts
isn
’t f
un
, bu
t th
at’s
w
hy
it d
isco
ura
ges
inap
pro
pri
ate
beh
avio
r. M
ore
“p
rod
uct
ive”
d
eten
tio
n a
lter
nat
ives
just
sh
ow
tee
ns
that
th
ere
wil
l be
no
ser
iou
s co
nse
qu
ence
s fo
r b
ad b
ehav
ior.
Sch
oo
ls h
ave
to t
ake
som
eth
ing
valu
able
to
u
s aw
ay––
ou
r ti
me.
Stu
den
ts
wo
n’t
tak
e o
ther
alt
ern
ativ
es,
such
as
med
itat
ion
or
bre
ath
ing
exer
cise
s, s
erio
usl
y. I
f sc
ho
ols
u
se t
hat
tim
e fo
r st
ud
ents
to
be
do
ing
oth
er t
hin
gs, i
s d
eten
tio
n
real
ly a
pu
nis
hm
ent—
or
just
an
oth
er f
orm
of
stu
dy
hal
l?
A s
tud
ent
wh
o
mis
beh
aves
like
ly
alre
ady
stru
ggle
s w
ith
sp
end
ing
eigh
t h
ou
rs o
f th
e d
ay b
ein
g to
ld w
hat
to
d
o a
nd
ho
w t
o d
o it
. Ad
din
g an
oth
er h
ou
r o
n t
op
of
that
ju
st s
ham
es t
hem
an
d c
ou
ld
mak
e th
em f
eel m
ore
ou
trag
ed a
nd
re
ady
to d
iso
bey
. It’
s n
o c
oin
cid
ence
th
at t
he
sam
e ki
ds
keep
get
tin
g se
nt
to d
eten
tio
n: T
hey
’re
angr
y ab
ou
t b
ein
g p
un
ish
ed s
o t
hey
lash
ou
t m
ore
, lea
din
g to
an
en
dle
ss c
ycle
of
dis
cip
lin
ary
infr
acti
on
s.
An
d t
hat
cyc
le c
an e
ven
fo
rm t
he
beg
inn
ing
of
a p
ipel
ine
that
so
met
imes
lead
s to
mo
re
seri
ou
s co
nse
qu
ence
s, li
ke a
t-h
om
e o
r in
-sch
oo
l su
spen
sio
n. T
hes
e p
un
ish
men
ts r
emo
ve s
tud
ents
fr
om
th
e so
cial
en
viro
nm
ent
of
sch
oo
l, ca
usi
ng
them
to
har
bo
r m
ore
an
ger.
Co
ntr
ibu
tin
g to
th
is
do
wn
war
d s
pir
al is
rem
ova
l fr
om
th
e cl
assr
oo
m s
etti
ng,
w
her
e w
ith
ou
t a
teac
her
, st
ud
ents
’ ed
uca
tio
n w
ill b
e sa
crif
iced
.
Th
at’s
wh
y sc
ho
ols
hav
e an
o
bli
gati
on
to
hel
p s
tud
ents
b
reak
th
e cy
cle
and
ad
dre
ss t
hei
r p
rob
lem
s w
ith
th
e sc
ho
ol.
Fo
r ex
amp
le, a
dis
cip
lin
ed s
tud
ent
cou
ld t
alk
abo
ut
the
pro
ble
m
wit
h a
tea
cher
, gu
idan
ce
cou
nse
lor,
or
com
mit
tee
of
stu
den
ts, a
nd
to
geth
er, t
hey
co
uld
bra
inst
orm
so
luti
on
s. T
his
w
ill s
ho
w t
he
stu
den
t sh
e’s
a va
lued
co
mm
un
ity
mem
ber
, an
d
it’l
l hel
p a
dd
ress
th
e p
rob
lem
w
her
e it
sh
ou
ld b
e ad
dre
ssed
: at
its
roo
t.
*SOU
RCE:
Coun
cil of
State
Gove
rnm
ents
Justi
ce Ce
nter
/The P
ublic
Polic
y Res
earch
Insti
tute
In o
ne s
tudy
of i
ncom
ing
colle
ge fr
eshm
en,
repo
rted
feel
ing
“ove
rwhe
lmed
by
all I
had
to d
o” d
urin
g se
nior
ye
ar o
f hig
h sc
hool
.* C
an
the
thre
at o
f mis
sing
ou
t on
an h
our
keep
stu
dent
s in
line
?
41%
Stud
ents
who
wer
e di
scip
lined
had
, on
ave
rage
,
susp
ensi
ons,
or e
xpul
sion
s du
ring
mid
dle
or h
igh
scho
ol.*
Is
pun
ishm
ent a
ctua
lly
help
ing
them
ch
ange
th
eir
beha
vior
?
At a
Flo
rida
high
sch
ool,
stud
ents
us
e w
ritin
g to
refle
ct o
n w
hat
prom
pted
thei
r mis
beha
vior
, how
it
affe
cted
oth
ers,
and
how
they
co
uld’
ve a
void
ed it
. The
idea
? Fo
r th
em to
lear
n fr
om th
eir m
ista
kes.
Tea
cher
s se
rve
as d
isci
plin
ed
stud
ents
’ “pe
rson
al a
cade
mic
trai
ners
” at
one
Mon
tana
hig
h sc
hool
. The
y ge
t st
uden
ts to
geth
er fo
r stu
dy s
essi
ons
or m
ento
r eac
h te
en s
epar
atel
y on
the
subj
ects
they
’re s
trug
glin
g w
ith.
Whe
n a
Mar
ylan
d m
iddl
e sc
hool
sen
t tro
uble
mak
ers
to a
teac
her f
or c
oach
ing
or
tuto
ring
durin
g lu
nch,
the
num
ber o
f kid
s di
scip
lined
dr
oppe
d by
98
perc
ent!
A B
altim
ore
high
sch
ool c
reat
ed a
M
indf
ul M
omen
t Roo
m: D
isru
ptiv
e te
ens
can
go th
ere
to b
reat
he d
eepl
y, ta
lk
thro
ugh
emot
ions
, or s
tret
ch o
r do
yoga
. St
uden
ts c
an u
se th
e ro
om a
t any
tim
e.
Whe
n yo
u m
isbe
have
at o
ne
New
Yor
k Ci
ty s
choo
l with
gra
des
6 th
roug
h 12
, you
don
’t go
to
dete
ntio
n. In
stea
d, y
ou a
ppea
r be
fore
a “
just
ice
pane
l” o
f fou
r pe
ers,
who
list
en to
you
r acc
ount
an
d de
cide
on
a pu
nish
men
t. Th
e sc
hool
say
s th
e ki
d co
urts
hav
e de
crea
sed
susp
ensi
on.
*SOU
RCE:
Coun
cil of
State
Gove
rnm
ents
Justi
ce Ce
nter
/The P
ublic
Polic
y Res
earch
Insti
tute
8 de
tent
ions
,
2
3
5
4
1
CH
OIC
ES
/ F
ebru
ary
20
18 7
How
to B
e aGo
od Fr
iend
Did
you
kno
w h
avin
g ju
st o
ne c
lose
frie
nd m
akes
you
he
alth
ier?
How
to k
eep
your
BFF
s by
you
r sid
e.
ver
hear
d th
e ol
d so
ng t
hat
goes
, “I g
et b
y w
ith a
litt
le
help
from
my
frie
nds”
? It
isn’
t ju
st a
cat
chy
tune
: We
need
co
mpa
nion
ship
to
get
by a
nd
thri
ve. “
Soci
al c
onne
ctio
n is
a b
asic
hum
an
need
,” s
ays
Sher
i Van
Dijk
, a t
hera
pist
an
d au
thor
of R
elat
ions
hip
Skill
s 10
1 for
Te
ens.
“W
e ne
ed fr
iend
s to
feel
hap
py a
nd
heal
thy.
” N
ow, s
cien
tists
are
rea
lizin
g th
at
havi
ng c
lose
frie
ndsh
ips
duri
ng t
he t
een
year
s is
eve
n m
ore
impo
rtan
t th
an
they
tho
ught
. A n
ew s
tudy
sho
ws
that
tee
ns w
ho h
ad o
ne c
lose
fr
iend
ship
—ra
ther
tha
n a
big
grou
p of
bud
s th
ey d
on’t
know
as
wel
l—ha
d a
grea
ter
sens
e of
sel
f-w
orth
at
25, m
eani
ng
that
bes
tie-s
hip
has
long
-las
ting
bene
fits.
H
ow c
an y
ou b
e th
e aw
esom
e fr
iend
yo
ur a
maz
ing
frie
nds
dese
rve?
Che
ck it
out
.
By A
ND
REA
BA
RTZ
• Ill
ustr
atio
n by
SEA
N M
CCA
BE
Bes
t an
swer
: C.
It’s
tem
ptin
g to
brin
g in
a t
hird
per
son,
but
now
you
’re
just
gos
sipi
ng. A
nd w
hile
giv
ing
her
a lit
tle s
pace
will
so
met
imes
hel
p (h
ey, f
or a
ll yo
u kn
ow, s
he’s
ups
et
abou
t so
met
hing
goi
ng o
n at
hom
e—no
t yo
u!),
if y
ou
know
som
ethi
ng’s
up
and
it’s
real
ly w
eigh
ing
on y
ou,
pret
endi
ng n
ot t
o se
e it
will
just
str
ess
you
out.
“Whe
n th
e te
nsio
n is
mod
erat
e to
sev
ere,
or
it pe
rsis
ts fo
r m
ore
than
a fe
w d
ays,
it’s
bes
t to
col
lect
you
r co
urag
e an
d sp
eak
to t
he fr
iend
dire
ctly
,” s
ays
psyc
holo
gist
Lu
cie
Hem
men
. “N
o m
atte
r w
hat’s
hap
pene
d, c
arin
g is
th
e un
iver
sal l
angu
age
of r
econ
nect
ion.
” Ta
ke a
dee
p br
eath
, let
her
kno
w y
ou’re
the
re fo
r he
r, an
d—th
is is
ke
y—lis
ten
whi
le s
he e
xpla
ins
wha
t’s g
oing
on.
Wha
t’s Y
our F
riend
IQ?
HO
W W
OU
LD Y
OU
HA
ND
LE T
HES
E TR
ICKY
FRI
END
SN
AFU
S? C
HO
OSE
AN
AN
SWER
, TH
EN L
EARN
WH
ICH
CO
URS
E O
F A
CTIO
N M
AKE
S YO
U A
PRO
BRO
.
1A
clo
se b
ud o
f you
rs is
cle
arly
tic
ked
off a
t you
, and
you
hav
e no
idea
why
. You
. . .
A
) as
k a
mut
ual f
riend
wha
t’s u
p.B)
pre
tend
eve
ryth
ing’
s no
rmal
and
see
if h
er b
ad
moo
d go
es a
way
.C)
find
tim
e al
one
with
her
and
say
, “I’v
e no
ticed
you
ha
ven’
t bee
n ta
lkin
g to
me
or S
napc
hatt
ing
me
muc
h la
tely
—ev
eryt
hing
OK?
”
EZRA SHAW/GETTY IMAGES (STEPHEN CURRY & DRAYMOND GREEN); JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC (SELENA GOMEZ & TAYLOR SWIFT); LISA O’CONNOR/ZUMAPRESS.COM (C-3PO & R2-D2)
YOU
R R
ELA
TIO
NSH
IPS
E
8 C
HO
ICE
S /
Feb
ruar
y 2
018
CH
OIC
ES
/ F
ebru
ary
20
18 9
YELLOW DOG PRODUCTIONS/GETTY IMAGES (BAND); VISUALS STOCK/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO (PARTY)
PETER DAZELEY/GETTY IMAGES (GIRL ON PHONE); PHOTOALTO/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO (BOYS)
Bes
t an
swer
: B. “
This
is s
uch
a to
ugh
one,
be
caus
e w
e al
l wan
t to
fit
in w
ith o
ur fr
iend
s an
d be
like
d an
d ac
cept
ed,”
Van
Dijk
say
s. It
st
inks
whe
n yo
u’re
mak
ing
the
nice
mov
e lik
e be
frie
ndin
g th
e ne
w k
id, a
nd y
our
frie
nds
aren
’t on
boa
rd. B
ut h
ere’
s th
e th
ing:
You
r fr
iend
s pr
obab
ly li
ke t
hat
you’
re fr
iend
ly, c
onfid
ent,
and
kind
. So
show
off
tho
se q
ualit
ies
by s
hrug
ging
an
d sa
ying
, “H
e’s
cool
, and
doe
sn’t
know
tha
t m
any
peop
le y
et.”
If t
hey
can’
t de
al w
ith it
, ask
yo
urse
lf if
thos
e ar
e fr
iend
s yo
u w
ant
to h
ave.
HU
G IT
OU
T! I
t trig
gers
the
rele
ase
of o
xyto
cin,
a b
rain
che
mic
al th
at
mak
es y
ou b
oth
feel
goo
d.
SH
OW
UP
at y
our f
riend
’s g
ame
or
scho
ol p
lay.
You
r pre
senc
e pr
oves
yo
u su
ppor
t him
.
SEN
D A
FU
NN
Y G
IF. I
f you
kno
w a
fr
iend
’s h
avin
g a
bad
day,
text
her
pu
ppy
GIF
s to
mak
e he
r sm
ile.
REM
EMBE
R H
IS H
OBB
IES
and
fa
ves.
You
r frie
nd lo
ves
sea
turt
les,
an
d on
you
r fam
ily v
acat
ion,
you
fo
und
a sh
op th
at o
nly
sells
turt
le
stuf
f? P
ick
up a
sou
veni
r!
MA
KE E
YE C
ON
TACT
as
you’
re
wal
king
dow
n th
e ha
ll. A
sim
ple
kind
look
mak
es p
eopl
e fe
el s
een.
LIS
TEN
. Put
you
r pho
ne d
own
and
real
ly le
nd a
n ea
r. Yo
u’ll
be
amaz
ed a
t how
val
idat
ing
this
is
for y
our f
riend
.
Yes,
you
can
shu
t up
an
d sh
ow y
ou c
are
at th
e sa
me
time!
A)
mak
e up
a fa
mily
ob
ligat
ion.
B) s
ay, “
I’m a
ctua
lly
goin
g to
Jak
e’s
part
y th
at n
ight
.”C)
tell
them
, “I
’m n
ot s
ure
yet”
and
then
ch
ange
the
subj
ect.
Bes
t an
swer
: B. “
Litt
le w
hite
lies
ca
n ge
t us
into
tro
uble
,” V
an
Dijk
war
ns. I
f a p
ictu
re o
f you
at
the
part
y en
ds u
p on
Inst
agra
m,
your
frie
nds
will
not
be
plea
sed.
So
tel
l the
tru
th, b
ut a
lso
mak
e it
clea
r yo
u va
lue
thei
r fr
iend
ship
. “Y
ou m
ight
say
, ‘W
hat
are
you
up
to S
atur
day?
We
shou
ld w
atch
th
e ga
me,
’” V
an D
ijk s
ugge
sts.
“V
alid
atio
n go
es a
long
way
.”
WAY
S TO
BE
A
FRIE
ND
WIT
HO
UT
SAYI
NG
A W
ORD
You
coul
d sa
y, “
Who
a, I
need
a
min
ute”
or e
ven
“I d
on’t
wan
t to
frea
k ou
t at y
ou, s
o le
t’s ta
lk
tom
orro
w.”
Whe
n yo
u fe
el li
ke
you’
ve b
een
blin
dsid
ed, y
ou c
an’t
sa
y th
e fr
iend
ship
-sal
vagi
ng
thin
gs y
ou w
ant t
o sa
y, s
o bu
y yo
urse
lf co
ol-d
own
time.
Hit
paus
e an
d si
lent
ly a
naly
ze th
e fe
elin
gs a
nd s
ensa
tions
in y
our
body
. May
be y
our h
eart
’s ra
cing
, yo
ur s
houl
ders
are
tens
e, o
r you
fe
el a
nger
and
sha
me.
“N
otic
ing
and
desc
ribin
g w
hat’s
hap
peni
ng
slow
s th
ings
dow
n, s
o yo
u ca
n ch
oose
how
to re
spon
d in
stea
d of
ju
st la
shin
g ou
t,” V
an D
ijk s
ays.
It s
houl
d ha
ve tw
o pa
rts:
a
stat
emen
t of h
ow y
ou
feel
and
a re
ques
t for
w
hat y
ou’d
like
to h
appe
n ne
xt. (
No
yelli
ng!)
May
be:
“I w
as h
urt w
hen
you
said
th
at a
bout
my
brot
her.
In
the
futu
re, c
ould
you
not
ta
lk a
bout
him
that
way
?”
If yo
u’ve
giv
en y
ours
elf a
who
le
day
to re
flect
, jot
that
resp
onse
do
wn
and
say
it al
oud
a fe
w
times
. “Th
is w
ill h
elp
it ro
ll of
f th
e to
ngue
,” V
an D
ijk s
ays.
If
you’
re h
avin
g th
is ta
lk in
real
tim
e, re
hear
se y
our r
eply
in
your
min
d a
coup
le o
f tim
es
first
. The
n sa
y yo
ur p
iece
!
You’
ve ju
st s
how
n yo
ur fr
iend
ho
w y
ou fe
el. N
ow li
sten
. By
open
ing
your
self
to re
al ta
lk,
you’
re s
tren
gthe
ning
you
r fr
iend
ship
. “Le
ttin
g a
frie
nd
know
that
you
car
e ab
out t
he
frie
ndsh
ip g
oes
a lo
ng w
ay,”
H
emm
en s
ays.
REM
EMBE
R: IT
’S O
K TO
DIS
AG
REE.
If so
meb
ody
post
s ab
out
som
ethi
ng t
hey
feel
str
ongl
y ab
out
(tha
t co
uld
be a
nyth
ing
from
pol
itics
to
a m
ovie
) an
d yo
u co
mpl
etel
y di
sagr
ee, t
hat’s
OK
. You
don
’t ne
ed t
o se
t th
em s
trai
ght
or t
ell t
hem
th
ey’re
wro
ng. “
You
can
dis
agre
e w
ith t
heir
take
but
stil
l acc
ept
that
it’
s th
eir
expe
rienc
e,”
Van
Dijk
say
s.
KEEP
A F
RIEN
D O
N Y
OU
R RA
DA
R.
“If y
our
frie
nd is
wor
ried
abou
t th
e SA
T he
’s t
akin
g on
Sa
turd
ay, s
end
him
a t
ext
wis
hing
him
luck
,” H
emm
en s
ugge
sts.
“If
a fr
iend
just
bro
ke u
p w
ith h
er b
oyfr
iend
and
is d
read
ing
wee
kend
s,
let
her
know
you
kno
w it
’s a
har
d tim
e an
d of
fer
to m
ake
plan
s to
do
som
ethi
ng fu
n.”
Tuni
ng in
to
how
a b
ud is
feel
ing
and
whe
n th
ey n
eed
you
offli
ne t
oo le
ts t
hem
kno
w t
hey’
re im
port
ant
to y
ou a
nd y
ou c
are.
DO
N’T
SA
Y A
NYT
HIN
G Y
OU
D
ON
’T W
AN
T SC
REEN
SHO
TTED
.A
sno
tty
com
men
t ab
out
a cl
assm
ate.
A
str
ing
of e
moj
is in
dica
ting
how
dum
b a
frie
nd’s
new
girl
frie
nd is
. A s
ubtw
eet
that
cle
arly
tar
gets
one
kid
on
your
tra
ck
team
. You
kno
w t
his
stuf
f is
mea
n, s
o do
n’t
say
wha
t yo
u w
ould
n’t
in p
erso
n!
A)
keep
invi
ting
him
to
gro
up g
athe
rings
un
til th
ey c
an s
ee
how
gre
at h
e is
.B)
han
g ou
t with
hi
m w
hen
your
ot
her f
rien
ds a
ren’
t ar
ound
.C)
sto
p ta
lkin
g to
hi
m—
it’s
real
ly n
ot
wor
th it
.
You’
ve m
ade
frie
nds
with
a n
ew k
id a
t sch
ool a
nd
even
dis
cove
red
you
both
love
mak
ing
mus
ic. B
ut
your
long
time
frie
nds
don’
t lik
e hi
m. Y
ou .
. .
The
3 Ca
rdin
al R
ules
of B
eing
A
GO
OD
FRI
END
ON
LIN
EO
nlin
e an
d on
you
r dev
ices
, you
’re
in n
ear-
cons
tant
co
ntac
t with
you
r IRL
frie
nds.
A fe
w s
impl
e co
mm
andm
ents
for t
reat
ing
ever
yone
kin
dly
onlin
e:
You
wer
e in
vite
d to
the
clas
s pr
esid
ent J
ake’
s bi
rthd
ay b
ash
. . .
and
your
fr
iend
s w
eren
’t. T
hey
ask
wha
t you
’re
up to
that
Fr
iday
. (A
wk!
) Yo
u . .
.
2
3YO
UR
REL
ATI
ON
SHIP
S
Frie
nd F
irst A
id! Y
eee-
ouch
! You
r frie
nd ju
st re
ally
bur
ned
you.
How
to tr
y to
hea
l the
hur
t
BUY
SOM
E TI
ME.
OBS
ERV
E.CR
AFT
A R
ESPO
NSE
.SP
EAK
UP.
MO
VE
ON
.
10 C
HO
ICE
SC
HO
ICE
S /
Feb
ruar
y 2
018
11
Are Y
ou
Addi
cted
to Yo
ur
Phon
e?. .
. not
to m
entio
n vide
o gam
es?
(Psst
: The
y’re
desig
ned
to do
just
that
!)
You
wan
t to
sto
p pl
ayin
g a
gam
e,
but
need
to
get
to a
sav
e po
int
first
. You
kno
w y
ou c
heck
you
r no
tific
atio
ns a
lot,
but
it’s
har
d to
qu
it. P
eopl
e sa
y yo
u sh
ould
just
pu
t yo
ur d
evic
es d
own.
But
gue
ss
wha
t? A
pp a
nd g
ame
desi
gner
s wan
t to
get
you
hoo
ked.
Her
e’s
how
the
y do
it—
and
how
to
keep
yo
ur t
ech
from
tak
ing
over
.
By J
ULI
E SC
HA
RPER
YOU
R M
ENTA
L H
EALT
H
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R M
ENTA
L H
EALT
H
CH
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ES
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ebru
ary
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At fi
rst, C
aleb
’s v
ideo
gam
e h
abit
w
as n
o b
ig d
eal.
He’
d p
lay
for
an h
ou
r o
r tw
o, a
lway
s af
ter
socc
er p
ract
ice.
B
ut
then
Cal
eb’s
life
got
mor
e co
mp
licat
ed. H
is
par
ents
sp
lit u
p, a
nd
wh
en t
hin
gs g
ot t
ense
, Cal
eb
esca
ped
furt
her
into
vid
eo g
ames
. Wh
en h
is m
om
rem
arri
ed, C
aleb
mov
ed h
alfw
ay a
cros
s th
e co
un
try.
H
e m
ay h
ave
bee
n t
he
new
kid
in s
choo
l, b
ut
in h
is
gam
ing
wor
ld, h
e w
as a
n a
ce s
hot
, blo
win
g u
p r
ival
s,
loot
ing
thei
r st
uff
, an
d p
layi
ng
bet
ter
and
lon
ger
than
an
yon
e el
se. S
oon
, he
was
sp
end
ing
all o
f his
free
ti
me
on h
is X
box
, ru
shin
g h
ome
from
sch
ool t
o st
art
a n
ew g
ame.
“It
got
ou
t of
han
d s
o fa
st,”
say
s C
aleb
, n
ow 1
6. “
I’d p
lay
for
hou
rs a
nd
hou
rs s
trai
ght,
day
an
d n
igh
t. M
y m
om w
ould
tel
l me
to g
o to
bed
, bu
t I’d
sn
eak
up
at
nig
ht
and
do
it s
ome
mor
e.”
Do
you
eve
r p
lan
to
go fo
r a
run
bu
t en
d u
p
pla
yin
g vi
deo
gam
es in
stea
d?
Or
sit
dow
n w
ith
a
com
pu
ter
to w
rite
a p
aper
bu
t ge
t lo
st in
You
Tub
e?
Hav
e yo
u e
ver
mis
sed
th
e b
est
par
t of
a m
ovie
on
N
etfl
ix b
ecau
se y
ou g
ot s
idet
rack
ed s
end
ing
snap
s?
Acc
ord
ing
to a
201
6 su
rvey
, mor
e th
an 5
0 p
erce
nt
of t
een
s sa
y th
ey fe
el t
hat
th
ey’re
ad
dic
ted
to
thei
r m
obile
dev
ices
. Th
at’s
not
a c
oin
cid
ence
: Ap
p
mak
ers
and
gam
e d
evel
oper
s w
ant
to g
et y
ou
hoo
ked
. “T
hes
e ap
ps
and
ga
mes
see
m li
ke t
hey
’re ju
st
her
e to
hel
p y
ou c
onn
ect
wit
h y
our
frie
nd
s or
sh
ow
you
fun
ny
mem
es a
nd
cu
te
kitt
ens,
” sa
ys R
amsa
y B
row
n,
co-f
oun
der
of D
opam
ine
Lab
s, a
tec
h s
tart
-up
th
at
crea
tes
app
s. “
Bu
t w
hat
’s
goin
g on
is w
ay c
reep
ier:
T
hey
’re s
ellin
g yo
ur
atte
nti
on s
pan
.”H
e sh
ou
ld k
now
. Li
ke o
ther
ap
p
dev
elo
per
s, B
row
n’s
job
is t
o fi
gure
o
ut
how
to
get
—an
d h
old
—yo
ur
atte
nti
on
so
th
at y
ou
ke
ep c
om
ing
bac
k.
Th
at’s
bec
ause
th
e
mo
re t
ime
you
sp
end
on
an
ap
p, t
he
mo
re m
on
ey
adve
rtis
ers
will
pay
th
e ap
p’s
mak
ers.
Wh
at t
ho
se
app
an
d v
ideo
gam
e cr
eato
rs a
re s
ellin
g, B
row
n
says
, is
you
r at
ten
tio
n, y
ou
r in
tere
st, a
nd
th
e ti
me
you
sp
end
loo
kin
g at
th
eir
app.
So
how
do
ap
p d
evel
op
ers
and
gam
e d
esig
ner
s ke
ep u
s co
min
g b
ack?
Th
e an
swer
lies
in s
om
e o
f th
e m
ost
pri
mit
ive
par
ts o
f ou
r b
rain
. Wh
en y
ou
fe
el p
leas
ure
—w
hen
yo
u s
core
a w
inn
ing
goal
, ace
a
test
, or
catc
h t
he
eye
of y
ou
r cr
ush
—ce
rtai
n b
rain
ce
lls ig
nit
e, t
rigg
erin
g th
e re
leas
e o
f a c
hem
ical
m
esse
nge
r ca
lled
do
pam
ine.
Th
ere’
s a
clas
sic
exp
erim
ent
wh
ere
a ra
t is
giv
en a
leve
r to
pu
sh. I
f n
oth
ing
hap
pen
s w
hen
th
e ra
t p
ush
es t
he
leve
r, it
q
uic
kly
lose
s in
tere
st. I
f a t
reat
ap
pea
rs e
ach
tim
e th
e ra
t p
ush
es t
he
leve
r, t
he
rat
eats
a b
un
ch o
f tr
eats
, th
en m
oves
on
to
oth
er a
ctiv
itie
s. B
ut
if t
he
trea
t so
met
imes
ap
pea
rs a
nd
so
met
imes
do
esn’
t,
the
rat
pu
shes
th
e le
ver
ob
sess
ivel
y.
Wit
h a
ph
on
e, t
he
sam
e p
rin
cip
le is
at
pla
y,
Bro
wn
say
s. O
ften
, th
e n
oti
fica
tio
ns
you
get
fro
m
you
r fa
vori
te a
pp
s re
ally
are
n’t
that
exc
itin
g w
hen
yo
u t
hin
k ab
ou
t it
—b
ut
you
’ve
bee
n c
on
dit
ion
ed
to s
eek
that
litt
le r
ush
th
at c
om
es w
ith
fin
din
g o
ut
if a
nyo
ne’
s lik
ed y
ou
r la
test
ph
oto
or
po
st, s
o y
ou
ke
ep c
hec
kin
g an
d c
hec
kin
g. A
nd
so
met
imes
th
ose
n
oti
fica
tio
ns
are
incr
edib
ly r
ewar
din
g, li
ke w
hen
yo
u d
isco
ver
you
r la
st I
nst
agra
m p
ost
go
t d
ozen
s o
f lik
es. W
hen
th
at h
app
ens,
yo
ur
bra
in fl
oo
ds
wit
h
do
pam
ine—
a h
igh
yo
u’r
e o
f co
urs
e go
ing
to w
ant
to
recr
eate
aga
in a
nd
aga
in.
ON A
STRE
AKA
pp
mak
ers
and
gam
e d
evel
oper
s ar
e co
nst
antl
y ti
nke
rin
g w
ith
way
s to
get
you
to
spen
d t
he
mos
t ti
me
wit
h t
hei
r p
rod
uct
, Bro
wn
say
s. It
’s a
kin
d o
f b
rain
hac
kin
g: T
hey
’ll e
xper
imen
t w
ith
how
oft
en
you
get
a n
otif
icat
ion
ab
out
a n
ew c
omm
ent
or li
ke
to s
ee w
hat
exa
ctly
will
lead
you
to
spen
d m
ore
tim
e on
th
e ap
p. F
or e
xam
ple
, som
e te
chn
iqu
es a
re m
ore
over
t, s
uch
as
Snap
chat
’s “
stre
aks.
” If
you
’re
not
fa
mili
ar: S
nap
stre
aks
keep
you
an
d fr
ien
ds
in a
cyc
le o
f sen
din
g sn
aps
to e
ach
oth
er
at le
ast
once
eve
ry 2
4 h
ours
, or
you
ris
k “l
osin
g”
you
r sn
apst
reak
s. (
Th
e an
xiet
y st
arts
as
soon
as
you
se
e th
at h
ourg
lass
em
oji n
ext
to a
frie
nd’
s n
ame,
si
gnal
ing
a st
reak
’s a
bou
t to
ru
n o
ut
if y
ou d
on’t
sen
d
a sn
ap—
i.e.,
enga
ge w
ith
th
e ap
p, ju
st a
s it
s cr
eato
rs
wan
t yo
u t
o—so
on.)
Fri
end
s ar
e ra
nke
d a
ccor
din
g to
how
lon
g yo
u’ve
kep
t a
stre
ak g
oin
g. I
f you
’ve
ever
fe
lt s
tres
s ov
er t
he
thou
ght
of lo
sin
g yo
ur
stre
aks,
you
kn
ow w
hat
it’s
like
to
be
hoo
ked
. Si
nce
th
is t
ech
nol
ogy
is s
till
new
, we
know
litt
le
abou
t h
ow it
aff
ects
th
e st
ill-d
evel
opin
g b
rain
s of
te
ens.
“W
e h
ave
an e
nti
re g
ener
atio
n o
f gu
inea
pig
s in
an
exp
erim
ent,”
say
s p
sych
olog
ist
Ed
war
d S
pec
tor,
w
ho
hel
ps
teen
s w
ho
obse
ssiv
ely
use
tec
hn
olog
y.
Spec
tor
says
th
e re
al b
enef
it o
f an
act
ivit
y—n
earl
y an
y ac
tivi
ty—
com
es in
th
e fi
rst
hou
r. S
o if
you
’re
spen
din
g m
ore
than
an
hou
r a
day
on
you
r p
hon
e,
thin
k ab
out
oth
er t
hin
gs y
ou c
ould
do
wit
h y
our
tim
e. “
If y
ou s
pen
d t
hat
hou
r p
ract
icin
g gu
itar
or
pla
yin
g b
aske
tbal
l or
han
gin
g ou
t w
ith
frie
nd
s, it
co
uld
mak
e a
hu
ge d
iffe
ren
ce in
you
r lif
e,”
he
says
. H
ow d
o yo
u k
now
if y
ou’re
sp
end
ing
too
mu
ch
tim
e on
you
r p
hon
e or
Xb
ox? W
arn
ing
sign
s in
clu
de
lyin
g ab
out
tech
nol
ogy
use
, sp
end
ing
less
tim
e w
ith
fr
ien
ds
in p
erso
n, a
nd
falli
ng
grad
es, S
pec
tor
says
. If
you
try
to
cut
bac
k on
you
r te
ch u
se a
nd
can
’t, t
hat
’s
a si
gn y
ou m
igh
t b
enef
it fr
om a
bre
ak, o
r h
elp
from
a
psy
chol
ogis
t or
cou
nse
lor,
he
add
s.
For
som
e p
eop
le, t
ech
nol
ogy
use
can
bal
loon
in
to a
ser
iou
s p
rob
lem
. Som
e of
Sp
ecto
r’s p
atie
nts
sp
end
so
mu
ch t
ime
pla
yin
g vi
deo
gam
es t
hat
th
ey
suff
er p
hys
ical
con
seq
uen
ces,
like
mal
nu
trit
ion
or
deh
ydra
tion
from
forg
etti
ng
to e
at o
r d
rin
k. M
any
hav
e a
vita
min
D d
efic
ien
cy fr
om la
ck o
f su
nlig
ht.
A
few
hav
e ev
en d
evel
oped
bed
sore
s fr
om s
itti
ng
in t
he
sam
e sp
ot fo
r so
lon
g.
Bu
t yo
u d
on’t
nee
d t
o h
ave
ph
ysic
al s
ymp
tom
s to
kn
ow y
ou m
igh
t h
ave
a p
rob
lem
: Ju
st a
s se
riou
s ar
e th
e so
cial
con
seq
uen
ces.
Wh
en y
ou c
omp
uls
ivel
y u
se t
ech
nol
ogy,
you
can
mis
s ou
t on
imp
orta
nt
rite
s of
pas
sage
—d
eep
enin
g fr
ien
dsh
ips,
dat
ing,
ge
ttin
g a
job,
or
par
tici
pat
ing
in s
por
ts o
r th
eate
r or
b
and
. On
e st
ud
y sh
owed
th
at t
he
mor
e so
cial
med
ia
pla
tfor
ms
som
eon
e u
sed
, th
e m
ore
likel
y th
ey w
ere
to e
xper
ien
ce d
epre
ssio
n a
nd
an
xiet
y. S
pec
tor
hel
ps
his
pat
ien
ts a
dd
ress
an
y u
nd
erly
ing
men
tal h
ealt
h
Turn
off
not
ifica
tions
from
ap
ps. L
ook
at S
napc
hat
or In
stag
ram
whe
n yo
u fe
el li
ke it
—no
t eve
ry ti
me
ther
e’s
an u
pdat
e.
GET
IT
UN
DER
C
ON
TRO
L
Plan
soc
ial m
edia
bre
aks
whi
le re
adin
g or
stu
dyin
g.
Set a
larm
s fo
r ev
ery
30–4
5 m
inut
es, t
hen
spen
d fiv
e m
inut
es
on y
our p
hone
.
Put s
cree
ns d
own
an
hour
bef
ore
bed.
To
your
bra
in, t
he li
ght
can
mim
ic d
aylig
ht—
keep
ing
you
awak
e.
Set t
imes
to p
lay
vide
o ga
mes
, lik
e on
e ho
ur e
very
ev
enin
g. W
hen
you’
re d
one,
st
op a
nd d
o so
met
hing
els
e.
Soci
al m
edia
eat
ing
up
your
free
tim
e? V
ideo
gam
es p
layi
ng
you?
Her
e’s h
ow to
rejo
in th
e liv
ing.
12 C
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ICE
S /
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ruar
y 2
018
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HO
ICE
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ruar
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YOU
R M
ENTA
L H
EALT
H
issu
es a
nd
set
hea
lth
y lim
its
aro
un
d t
ech
. “T
hey
w
ant
to b
e in
co
ntr
ol o
f th
eir
tech
no
logy
use
,” s
ays
Spec
tor.
“T
hey
wan
t to
use
it w
hen
th
ey w
ant
to u
se
it a
nd
get
off
wh
en t
hey
wan
t to
get
off
.”
OBSE
SSED
WIT
H LIK
ESLi
lli, 1
6, fa
ced
a d
iffe
ren
t ki
nd
of s
tru
ggle
wit
h
tech
nol
ogy.
On
ce a
ded
icat
ed b
alle
t d
ance
r, a
ser
iou
s b
ack
inju
ry a
t 13
left
her
un
able
to
dan
ce—
and
se
arch
ing
for
a n
ew id
enti
ty. L
illi,
wh
o as
ked
th
at h
er
last
nam
e n
ot b
e u
sed
, cre
ated
a g
lam
orou
s p
erso
na
for
her
self
on
soc
ial m
edia
, oft
en s
nap
pin
g se
lfie
s w
ith
an
alc
ohol
ic b
ever
age
in h
and
. “T
he
per
son
I
was
por
tray
ing
mys
elf t
o b
e d
idn’
t re
ally
mat
ch u
p
wit
h t
he
mor
als
I h
ad h
ad b
efor
e,”
says
Lill
i. B
ut
Lilli
’s p
osts
wer
e a
hit
, rec
eivi
ng
hu
nd
red
s of
like
s fr
om fr
ien
ds
and
cla
ssm
ates
. Wh
en p
eop
le
enco
un
tere
d L
illi i
n p
erso
n, t
hey
exp
ecte
d h
er t
o
be
the
life
of t
he
par
ty. A
nd
Lill
i fel
t a
risi
ng
sen
se o
f an
xiet
y as
sh
e tr
ied
to
live
up
to
her
on
line
imag
e.Li
lli e
nro
lled
in a
res
iden
tial
tre
atm
ent
pro
gram
, Pa
rad
igm
, in
Mal
ibu
, Cal
ifor
nia
. Th
ere
she
got
sob
er
and
lear
ned
to
talk
ab
out
thou
ghts
an
d fe
elin
gs
hon
estl
y. S
ince
leav
ing
the
pro
gram
, Lill
i pos
ts le
ss
freq
uen
tly
on s
ocia
l med
ia a
nd
tri
es t
o p
rese
nt
her
au
then
tic
self
. “I
hav
e a
tota
lly d
iffe
ren
t p
ersp
ecti
ve
on s
ocia
l med
ia n
ow,”
Lill
i say
s. “
I p
ortr
ay m
ysel
f in
an
hon
est
way
, as
the
per
son
I a
m d
eep
dow
n.”
Figu
rin
g ou
t w
ho
you
are
is o
ne
of t
he
mos
t im
por
tan
t ta
sks
of t
he
teen
yea
rs, s
ays
psy
chol
ogis
t Je
ff N
alin
, Par
adig
m’s
exe
cuti
ve d
irec
tor.
Wh
en y
ou
spen
d t
oo m
uch
tim
e p
layi
ng
vid
eo g
ames
or
craf
tin
g an
on
line
imag
e, y
ou n
egle
ct d
isco
veri
ng
you
rsel
f. “I
t ca
n b
ecom
e ve
ry is
olat
ing,
” h
e sa
ys.
Cal
eb, t
oo, e
nte
red
Par
adig
m’s
pro
gram
aft
er h
is
vid
eo g
ame
use
got
way
ou
t of
han
d. H
e h
ad s
top
ped
p
layi
ng
spor
ts, h
is g
rad
es s
lipp
ed, a
nd
he
stru
ggle
d
wit
h a
nge
r is
sues
. At
Para
dig
m, w
her
e d
evic
es a
ren’
t al
low
ed, h
e re
aliz
ed h
ow m
uch
he’
d b
een
mis
sin
g.
He
got
into
su
rfin
g an
d t
enn
is a
nd
ap
plie
d fo
r a
job.
M
ost
imp
orta
ntl
y, h
e re
mem
ber
ed h
ow t
o co
nn
ect
wit
h fr
ien
ds
face
-to-
face
. For
Cal
eb, b
reak
ing
his
vi
deo
gam
e ad
dic
tion
was
, wel
l, a
gam
e ch
ange
r: “
It’s
b
een
a r
ealiz
atio
n o
f wh
at m
y lif
e co
uld
be
like.
”
#T
RU
ES
TO
RY
Ho
w t
hree
kid
s ta
med
the
ir t
ech
hab
its
“Whe
n I w
as
bore
d or
pr
ocra
sti-
natin
g, I
wou
ld w
atch
ra
ndom
vid
eos
on Y
ouTu
be,
from
mov
ie c
lips
to in
terv
iew
s to
the
Oly
mpi
cs. I
t was
eas
y to
be
curio
us a
bout
the
next
su
gges
ted
vide
o. H
ours
wou
ld
pass
and
I w
ould
n’t r
ealiz
e.”
HO
W I
GO
T BA
CK C
ON
TRO
L:
“Now
I st
ay a
way
from
my
phon
e w
hen
I nee
d to
. I’ll
put
it
on a
irpla
ne m
ode
or s
impl
y pu
t it o
n th
e ot
her s
ide
of th
e ro
om a
nd d
o m
y ho
mew
ork.
”
“Rec
ently
, I’v
e be
en
addi
cted
to
my
phon
e.
Slee
p is
im
port
ant t
o m
e, y
et I
give
up
an
hour
of i
t bef
ore
bed
in o
rder
to c
atch
up
with
so
cial
med
ia. O
nce
I was
so
tired
I fo
rgot
abo
ut a
ban
d pe
rfor
man
ce a
nd m
isse
d it.
” H
OW
I G
OT
BACK
CO
NTR
OL:
“I
kee
p m
y ph
one
from
taki
ng
over
my
time
by c
reat
ing
a lis
t of t
hing
s I n
eed
to d
o. B
y ke
epin
g bu
sy, I
’m n
ot a
lway
s th
inki
ng a
bout
it!”
“I w
as
supp
osed
to
pla
y in
a
live-
stre
am
char
ity v
ideo
ga
min
g ev
ent w
ith a
team
, but
I w
as s
o ho
oked
on
anot
her
gam
e, I
was
an
hour
late
. So,
th
ere
I was
, try
ing
to m
ake
an
excu
se a
s to
why
I w
as la
te,
but I
cou
ldn’
t fin
d on
e.”
HO
W I
GO
T BA
CK C
ON
TRO
L:
“I s
ched
ule
gam
ing
time
on m
y ca
lend
ar to
set
bo
unda
ries.
One
day
I st
ream
, an
othe
r day
I m
ight
pla
y al
one
or re
cord
for m
y Yo
uTub
e.”
Ann
e H
offm
an, 1
7 Cl
into
nvill
e, P
enns
ylva
nia
Lind
a Pe
ng, 1
7 Ce
dar F
alls
, Iow
aJo
rdon
Mal
lory
, 17
Indi
anap
olis
, Ind
iana
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Hai
r in
unus
ual
plac
es,
zits
whe
re
you
leas
t ex
pect
th
em,
sudd
en
body
odo
r:
It m
ay
feel
like
yo
ur w
orld
is
turn
ing
upsi
de
dow
n,
but t
hese
ch
ange
s ar
e to
tally
no
rmal
. (P
hew
!)
By L
ISA
LO
MBA
RDI
You
wen
t to
bed
with
cl
ear
skin
, but
wok
e up
on
pic
ture
day
with
a
gian
t zi
t on
you
r no
se.
Wha
t gi
ves?
“B
reak
outs
ca
n ap
pear
ove
rnig
ht,”
sa
ys D
r. La
urel
N
aver
sen
Ger
aght
y,
a de
rmat
olog
ist
in
Med
ford
, Ore
gon.
The
cu
lpri
t ca
n be
as
sim
ple
as fo
rget
ting
to w
ash
up b
efor
e go
ing
to s
leep
. But
an
acne
fla
re-u
p is
oft
en b
eyon
d yo
ur c
ontr
ol, s
he
adds
: “O
vern
ight
bre
akou
ts c
an h
appe
n be
caus
e of
str
ess,
hor
mon
al fl
uctu
atio
ns,
WH
AT
TO D
O A
BOU
T IT
: Bea
t br
eako
uts
with
dru
gsto
re c
lean
sers
and
tr
eatm
ents
con
tain
ing
benz
oyl p
erox
ide
or s
alic
ylic
aci
d. S
tart
with
a
pea-
size
d am
ount
, say
s N
aver
sen
Ger
aght
y, t
o se
e w
hat
your
ski
n w
ill t
oler
ate
(the
se p
rodu
cts
can
be d
ryin
g). I
f not
hing
hel
ps, s
ee a
de
rmat
olog
ist
for
next
-lev
el o
ptio
ns. F
or b
acne
, try
an
acne
was
h, b
ut
let
it si
t on
you
r ba
ck a
min
ute
befo
re w
ashi
ng it
off
, say
s Ze
ichn
er.
P.S.
If y
ou p
lay
foot
ball,
hoc
key,
or
lacr
osse
, kee
p pa
ds c
lean
and
dry
be
twee
n pr
actic
es s
o th
ey d
on’t
tran
sfer
bac
teria
to
your
ski
n.
STR
AN
GE
TH
ING
: Bre
akou
tsan
d so
met
imes
for
no
good
rea
son
othe
r th
an
you’
re y
oung
.” E
ight
y-fiv
e pe
rcen
t of
tee
ns
get
zits
. IT
ON
LY G
ETS
STRA
NG
ER: B
acne
Pi
mpl
es c
an a
ppea
r an
ywhe
re y
ou h
ave
oil g
land
s, in
clud
ing
your
bac
k, c
hest
, an
d sh
ould
ers.
“M
ore
oil m
eans
mor
e bl
ocke
d po
res
and
infla
mm
atio
n—w
hich
tra
nsla
tes
to a
cne,
” sa
ys d
erm
atol
ogis
t D
r. Jo
shua
Zei
chne
r, w
ith M
ount
Sin
ai H
ospi
tal i
n N
ew Y
ork.
Ther
e’s
a fu
ngus
am
ong
us:
Clea
n th
ose
pads
!
Illus
trat
ion
by J
OH
N U
ELA
ND
YOU
R H
EALT
H
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You
r si
ster
tak
es y
our
head
phon
es
with
out
aski
ng a
nd y
ou’re
sup
er
angr
y! T
wo
min
utes
late
r, m
eh—
you’
re o
ver
it. T
he m
ajor
ho
rmon
al c
hang
es y
ou’re
goi
ng
thro
ugh
right
now
brin
g on
em
otio
nal c
hang
es t
oo.
“You
exp
erie
nce
moo
ds
WH
AT
TO D
O A
BOU
T IT
: Fee
ling
inte
nse?
“Ta
ke t
ime-
outs
—to
rel
ax
and
deco
mpr
ess,
” ad
vise
s G
reen
berg
. It
’s a
lso
supe
r he
lpfu
l to
get
a go
od
nigh
t’s s
leep
and
avo
id s
kipp
ing
mea
ls.
Hea
lthy
food
kee
ps y
our
bloo
d su
gar
Um
, wha
t’s t
hat
smel
l? Y
our
oil a
nd s
wea
t gl
ands
are
mat
urin
g an
d be
com
ing
mor
e ac
tive
now
—an
d th
at m
eans
bod
y od
or, e
xpla
ins
Dr.
Josh
ua Z
eich
ner.
Wha
t yo
u’re
act
ually
sm
ellin
g is
you
r ow
n sw
eat
inte
ract
ing
with
the
nor
mal
bac
teria
on
your
ski
n.IT
ON
LY G
ETS
STRA
NG
ER: S
tinky
feet
Our
feet
hav
e 50
0,0
00
sw
eat
glan
ds a
nd c
an p
rodu
ce m
ore
than
a p
int
of s
wea
t a
day.
“St
inky
feet
are
co
mm
only
cau
sed
by o
verg
row
th o
f fun
gus,
” sa
ys Z
eich
ner.
WH
AT
TO D
O A
BOU
T IT
: Try
a d
eodo
rant
mad
e fo
r tee
ns,
whi
ch h
as fe
wer
che
mic
als.
If th
at d
oesn
’t do
it, u
se a
st
anda
rd a
ntip
ersp
irant
. For
feet
, if y
ou n
otic
e sc
alin
g sk
in
or w
hite
dis
colo
ratio
n, y
ou m
ay h
ave
athl
ete’
s fo
ot. T
ry
over
-the
-cou
nter
clo
trim
azol
e cr
eam
twic
e a
day.
Even
whe
n yo
u’re
exp
ectin
g bo
dy h
air,
it ca
n fr
eak
you
out
whe
n it
look
s no
thin
g lik
e w
hat’s
gro
win
g on
you
r he
ad. “
Peop
le a
re o
ften
sur
pris
ed a
t ho
w d
iffer
ent
hair
can
be, d
epen
ding
on
whe
re it
gro
ws
on t
he b
ody,
” sa
ys N
aver
sen
Ger
aght
y. T
he h
air
on o
ur h
eads
can
be
light
or
dark
, str
aigh
t or
cur
ly, a
nd t
hick
or
fine,
whi
le
hair
unde
r th
e ar
ms
and
near
the
gro
in is
oft
en c
oars
e an
d da
rk. L
eg-
and
uppe
r-lip
hai
r m
ay b
e fin
er—
and
som
etim
es h
as a
few
col
ors
mix
ed in
.
IT O
NLY
GET
S ST
RAN
GER
: Hai
r in
wac
ky p
lace
s Ev
er
notic
e a
hair
or t
hree
in a
wei
rd p
lace
like
you
r to
e?
“It
is 10
0 p
erce
nt n
orm
al a
nd e
xpec
ted
for
body
hai
r to
gro
w ju
st a
bout
eve
ryw
here
—ex
cept
for
may
be o
n th
e pa
lms
of y
our
hand
s or
sol
es o
f you
r fe
et,”
say
s N
aver
sen
Ger
aght
y. Y
ou m
ay
see
stra
ys o
n th
e fa
ce, c
hest
(e
ven
girls
may
hav
e a
few
),
or fi
nger
s.
WH
AT
TO D
O A
BOU
T IT
: If t
he r
ando
m h
airs
bug
you
, plu
ck
them
with
tw
eeze
rs. B
ut fo
r ta
king
off
und
erar
m h
air
or fa
cial
fu
zz, s
havi
ng is
the
bes
t op
tion.
Hav
e a
pare
nt h
elp
out
the
first
few
tim
es u
ntil
you’
ve g
ot it
dow
n. T
ip: A
n el
ectr
ic r
azor
ca
n he
lp lo
wer
the
ris
k of
nic
ks a
nd ir
rita
tion.
STR
AN
GE
TH
ING
: Sud
den
Ang
er
stea
dy, w
hich
mak
es y
ou le
ss li
kely
to
boun
ce fr
om h
igh
to lo
w s
tate
s. F
inal
tip
: Kee
p a
jour
nal,
whe
ther
it’s
on
pape
r or
in a
Goo
gle
Doc
, rec
omm
ends
G
reen
berg
, add
ing,
“Jo
urna
ls a
re a
gr
eat
plac
e to
sor
t ou
t yo
ur fe
elin
gs.”
mor
e in
tens
ely
and
the
moo
ds m
ay
shift
rap
idly
,” s
ays
Bar
bara
Gre
enbe
rg,
an a
dole
scen
t ps
ycho
logi
st in
Fai
rfie
ld
Cou
nty,
Con
nect
icut
. IT
ON
LY G
ETS
STRA
NG
ER:
Spon
tane
ous
laug
hter
You
’re
sudd
enly
cra
ckin
g up
at
the
wei
rdes
t tim
es, l
ike
durin
g a
mat
h te
st. W
hy?
You
know
we
each
ha
ve a
uni
que
finge
rprin
t, bu
t did
yo
u kn
ow w
e
also
hav
e a
uniq
ue
tong
ue p
rint?
We
are
born
w
ith m
ore
bone
s th
an
we
have
as
an
adul
t (so
me
fuse
toge
ther
).
Your
fin
gern
ails
gr
ow o
ver
thre
e tim
es
fast
er th
an
your
toen
ails
.
Peop
le p
ass
gas
abou
t 14
times
a d
ay.
The
hum
an e
ye
can
see
at le
ast
1 m
illio
n di
ffer
ent
colo
rs. S
ome
peop
le c
an s
ee
100
mill
ion
colo
rs.
Your
teet
h ar
e as
st
rong
as
sha
rk
teet
h!
Hea
lthy
eatin
g ca
n he
lp
your
moo
d!
Se
ve
n F
rea
ky
Fa
cts
Ab
ou
t th
e
H
um
an
Bo
d H
uh
? Y
ep
, e
ve
ryo
ne
’s b
orn
th
is w
ay
!
STR
AN
GE
TH
ING
: Sle
epin
g U
ntil
Fore
ver
CH
OIC
ES
/ F
ebru
ary
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18 1
918
CH
OIC
ES
/ F
ebru
ary
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18
STR
AN
GE
TH
ING
: Und
erar
m O
dor
YOU
R H
EALT
H
STR
AN
GE
TH
ING
: Bod
y H
air
Onc
e a
day
to
keep
B.O
. aw
ay
It’s
impo
ssib
le
to k
eep
yo
ur e
yes
open
whe
n yo
u sn
eeze
.
Twee
ze
only
if y
ou
plea
se!
You
’re u
p an
d ou
t ea
rly
ever
y sc
hool
day
but
on
wee
kend
s yo
u sn
ooze
till
no
on. Y
ou’re
not
lazy
—yo
u’re
just
gro
win
g. A
ccor
ding
to
the
Nat
iona
l Sle
ep
Foun
datio
n, t
eens
nee
d 8
to 10
hou
rs o
f sle
ep a
nig
ht, b
ut o
nly
15 p
erce
nt a
re
gett
ing
8½ h
ours
a s
choo
l nig
ht. Y
our
body
tri
es t
o ca
tch
up o
n w
eeke
nds!
WH
AT
TO D
O A
BOU
T IT
: Pow
er d
own
devi
ces
an h
our
befo
re b
ed. H
ungr
y? R
each
for
a lig
ht, c
arb-
rich
snac
k th
at’s
eas
y to
dig
est
(thi
nk a
ban
ana
or w
affle
) in
stea
d of
he
avy
or g
reas
y st
uff (
like
pizz
a). A
war
m b
ath
or s
how
er
has
also
sho
wn
to p
rep
our
bods
for
a go
od n
ight
’s r
est.
Com
bat
snac
k at
tack
s be
fore
bed
.
IT O
NLY
GET
S ST
RAN
GER
: You
can
’t g
et to
sle
ep o
n Su
nday
nig
ht!
You
kno
w t
he d
rill:
Aft
er s
leep
ing
in, y
ou’re
ove
r-re
sted
and
wir
ed w
hen
you
shou
ld b
e do
zing
off
to
rech
arge
for
the
busy
wee
k ah
ead.
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R L
IFE
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Rea
dy to
fi
gure
out
how
to
sav
e so
me
cash
—an
d st
art m
anag
ing
your
ow
n m
oney
like
a
bos
s? W
e th
ough
t so.
$$
$ ah
ead!
There
’s a
reas
on s
o m
any
rap
song
s ta
lk
abou
t m
akin
g th
ose
Gs:
Acc
umul
atin
g w
ealth
mak
es it
eas
y to
buy
wha
teve
r yo
u ne
ed—
with
mon
ey le
ft o
ver
for
the
fun
stuf
f, to
o. A
nd y
ou’re
at
exac
tly t
he r
ight
ag
e to
sta
rt m
aste
ring
the
basi
cs o
f per
sona
l fin
ance
. A
fter
all,
man
y ba
nks
are
eage
r to
ope
n ac
coun
ts fo
r ki
ds 13
and
up.
And
whe
ther
you
’re b
abys
ittin
g, s
ellin
g cl
othe
s at
the
mal
l, or
ser
ving
cof
fee,
you
’ve
likel
y st
eppe
d up
you
r ea
rnin
gs fr
om t
he c
oins
you
bro
ught
in
whe
n al
l you
had
was
a le
mon
ade
stan
d. P
lus
a sw
eet
perk
of a
ban
k ac
coun
t is
a d
ebit
card
, whi
ch y
ou c
an
use
to m
ake
purc
hase
s w
ith m
oney
from
you
r ac
coun
t.It
’s s
mar
t to
tra
de in
you
r pi
ggy
bank
for
som
e pl
astic
, and
not
just
bec
ause
it fe
els
supe
r ad
ult.
“I
open
ed u
p a
chec
king
acc
ount
with
my
pare
nts.
I le
arne
d ho
w t
o bu
dget
and
spe
nd m
y m
oney
wis
ely,
as
wel
l as
keep
tra
ck o
f my
acco
unt,”
say
s D
avid
Mar
shal
l, 16
, of R
uido
so, N
ew M
exic
o. “
It’s
tau
ght
me
how
to
be
mor
e re
spon
sibl
e w
ith m
oney
.” T
o ge
t st
arte
d, w
e’ve
pu
lled
toge
ther
gen
ius
way
s to
see
you
r ne
t w
orth
gr
ow—
and
to s
tret
ch e
very
dol
lar
as fa
r as
you
can
.
Teen
s Jus
t W
anna
Ha
ve F
unds
By A
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ND
RA K
IRKM
AN
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y LI
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E H
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ICE
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Feb
ruar
y 2
018
YOU
R L
IFE
“I lo
ve h
avin
g a
debi
t car
d.
My
mom
can
tran
sfer
mon
ey
inst
antly
to m
e. A
nd I
like
that
I do
n’t w
alk
arou
nd w
ith
cash
—w
hen
frie
nds
ask
for
a do
llar,
I can
hon
estly
say
I do
n’t h
ave
one!
” Br
ookl
yn W
right
, 15,
Po
wde
r Spr
ings
, Geo
rgia
“With
a d
ebit
card
, it’s
so
eas
y to
kee
p tr
ack
of m
y m
oney
thro
ugh
the
onlin
e ap
p. It
’s a
lso
real
ly in
stru
ctiv
e to
kn
ow th
at m
y ca
rd h
as a
lim
it I c
an’t
exce
ed.”
—
Nat
alie
Lop
ez, 1
7,
May
woo
d, C
alifo
rnia
“I li
ke h
avin
g th
e fr
eedo
m to
buy
thin
gs
onlin
e w
ithou
t hav
ing
to
pay
my
mom
cas
h th
en
borr
ow h
er c
redi
t car
d.
Als
o, if
I fo
rget
lunc
h m
oney
I ha
ve a
bac
kup.
” —
And
rew
Che
rry,
15,
Wes
tfie
ld, N
ew J
erse
y
Whe
n yo
u’re
ope
ning
a c
heck
ing
acco
unt,
shop
aro
und
for
one
that
w
ill h
elp
you
mak
e th
e m
ost
of
your
mon
ey. “
The
goal
is t
o fin
d an
ac
coun
t w
ith t
he fe
wes
t fe
es a
nd t
he
mos
t in
tere
st,”
say
s Su
san
Bea
cham
, co
auth
or o
f O.M
.G. O
ffic
ial M
oney
G
uide
for
Teen
ager
s. (
Inte
rest
is m
oney
yo
u ea
rn b
y ke
epin
g yo
ur c
ash
stas
hed
with
a b
ank.
) H
er a
dvic
e: C
heck
loca
l ba
nks
first
. “C
omm
unity
ban
ks t
end
to g
ive
teen
ager
s be
tter
inte
rest
rat
es
beca
use
they
wan
t to
cul
tivat
e ju
nior
sa
vers
as
a ge
stur
e of
goo
dwill
,”
she
says
. (H
ead
onlin
e to
cho
ices
.sc
hola
stic
.com
/ban
king
for
som
e to
p ch
ecki
ng a
nd d
ebit
card
opt
ions
.)
3. K
EEP
YO
UR
DO
LLA
RS
DIG
ITA
LEv
er h
eard
the
ph
rase
“m
oney
bur
ning
a h
ole
in y
our
pock
et”?
The
idea
is if
yo
u ha
ve c
ash—
say,
$20
from
ba
bysi
ttin
g or
mow
ing
the
neig
hbor
’s la
wn—
you’
ll be
itch
ing
to s
pend
it in
stea
d of
sav
ing
it. G
et
thos
e bi
lls o
ut o
f you
r ha
nds
and
into
the
ban
k w
ith m
oney
-tra
nsfe
r ap
ps. “
Ask
to
get
paid
with
V
enm
o,”
Cha
tzky
say
s. T
hen
you
can
shut
tle t
he m
oney
str
aigh
t in
to
the
bank
from
you
r ph
one.
5. M
AK
E SA
VIN
G
A F
AM
ILY
AFF
AIR
H
ere’
s a
tric
k th
at’ll
mak
e yo
u w
ant
to p
ut m
ore
cash
in t
he b
ank:
Ask
yo
ur p
aren
ts a
nd g
rand
pare
nts
if th
ey’ll
con
side
r m
atch
ing
wha
t yo
u sa
ve, B
each
am s
ugge
sts.
May
be
they
giv
e yo
u 25
or
50 c
ents
for
ever
y do
llar
you
stas
h, u
p to
a
set
amou
nt. H
ave
them
sen
d th
e m
oney
to
you
with
Ven
mo
or
Fam
Zoo,
a “
virt
ual f
amily
ban
k”
that
lets
fam
ily m
embe
rs
easi
ly s
end
fund
s to
on
e an
othe
r.
Her
e’s
the
idea
: Eve
ryon
e ch
ips
in $
5 an
d co
mes
with
an
idea
abo
ut h
ow t
o ha
ve t
he m
ost
fun
with
you
r co
llect
ive
cash
. “W
hile
$5
won
’t ge
t yo
u ve
ry
far
in t
oday
’s w
orld
, $25
may
get
you
a
ride
shar
e to
an
activ
ity t
hat
you
all
wan
t to
che
ck o
ut, l
ike
a fr
ee c
once
rt,”
B
each
am s
ays.
Plu
s, le
arni
ng h
ow t
o m
axim
ize
your
mon
ey p
rese
nts
the
fun
oppo
rtun
ity t
o sc
our
your
com
mun
ity
for
free
stu
ff. “
If yo
u th
ink
of it
like
a
trea
sure
hun
t, yo
u’re
mor
e lik
ely
to
enjo
y th
e ex
perie
nce
and
get
the
mos
t ou
t of
it,”
she
add
s.
WE
O
UR
DEB
IT
C
AR
DS!
3 te
ens
on w
hat t
hey’
ve le
arne
d fr
om p
ayin
g
w
ith p
last
ic
1. H
AV
E A
SPE
CIF
IC G
OA
L2.
GET
T
HE
MO
ST
BAN
K
FOR
Y
OU
R
BUC
K
Kno
win
g ex
actly
wha
t yo
u’re
sav
ing
for
mak
es
stas
hing
you
r ca
sh e
asie
r. “S
avin
g m
oney
is t
ough
be
caus
e yo
u’re
goi
ng
agai
nst
your
inst
inct
s of
im
med
iate
gra
tific
atio
n—th
at y
ou s
houl
d ju
st g
o fo
r it
then
and
the
re,”
sa
ys p
erso
nal f
inan
ce e
xper
t an
d To
day
Show
fin
anci
al e
dito
r Je
an C
hatz
ky. “
That
’s w
hy w
e ha
ve
to in
corp
orat
e st
rate
gies
tha
t he
lp u
s m
ake
the
right
de
cisi
ons.
” Fo
r ex
ampl
e, if
you
nee
d $3
00
to
buy
a ne
w v
ideo
gam
e sy
stem
, wat
chin
g yo
ur s
avin
gs g
row
to
war
d th
at t
otal
will
hel
p yo
u ov
erco
me
the
urge
to
inst
ead
blow
you
r ca
sh o
n, s
ay, p
izza
aft
er s
choo
l.
4. S
TA
RT
A “
FIV
E-BU
CK
FU
N C
LUB”
Feb
ruar
y 2
018
23
Cred
it ca
rds
are
a di
ffer
ent a
nim
al fr
om
debi
t car
ds, a
nd c
an
be e
xpen
sive
and
da
nger
ous
if yo
u do
n’t m
anag
e th
em
corr
ectly
. Tha
t’s w
hy
in 2
00
9, a
fede
ral
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CHANGEMAKER
The INSPIRATION: Evan Robinson, 12, lives in Chicago—2,000 miles away from family friends in Puerto Rico. But in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, when much of the island was without food, power, and water, he wanted to help. An avid cook (he was on MasterChef Junior!), Evan decided to sell homemade empanadas—a Latin American pastry filled with meat, cheese, fruit, or nuts—and give all the proceeds to Unidos por Puerto Rico, a hurricane-relief initiative started by Puerto Rico’s first lady Beatriz Rosselló. “We talked to our friends there,” says Evan. “They helped us find a charity that would directly help people on the island.”
The ACTION: Evan used his Facebook page to accept orders for his empanadas, calling the campaign #PiesForPuertoRico. Out-of-towners wanted to help, so he let them pay for empanadas that went to a Chicago-area homeless shelter. “That way, we were helping people out in two ways,” says Evan. He shaped, and baked more than 400 empanadas, and his parents and their friends helped deliver the treats around Chicago. “It was great to see the look on people’s faces,” he says. “They were so happy to get the empanadas—and to support Puerto Rico at the same time.”
The OUTCOME: From empanada orders, Evan raised more than $800. He also set up a charity crowdfunding page where so far he’s collected $615 for Unidos por Puerto Rico. “Any small thing can make a great impact,” says Evan. “My deal is cooking, so I put my own spin on it. But whatever you’re good at, you can use it to help others.”
Evan turned his love of cooking into funds for Puerto Rico..
COUR
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OF F
AMILY
For information on how you can
help relief efforts in Puerto Rico,
check out the organization Evan partnered with at
unidosporpuertorico .com
50%Nearly
of adults don’t know that people born in Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States, are U.S. citizens.
Source: Morning Consult National Tracking Poll, 201724 CHOICES / February 2018
Word Bank
FEBRUARY 2018
Vocab: Are You Addicted to Your Phone?
Directions: Using the Word Bank below, fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences.
YOUR MENTAL HEALTH PAGES 10–15 DATE:
NAME:
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dopamine
coincidence
tinkering
overt
engage
compulsively
authentic
isolating
ignite
primitive
hacking
persona
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1. It’s not a ___________ that you feel addicted to your phone. App developers and
designers want to get you hooked.
2. Every time you get a notification, your brain gets a quick surge of ________, which is
a chemical signal from your brain that gives you a little boost of pleasure.
3. The ____________ part of your brain is programmed to _________ certain cells to
release a chemical signal, so playing makes you crave even more screentime.
4. App makers and game developers are constantly ___________ with different ways to
get you to spend even more time with their product.
5. In a way, app makers and game deveopers are ____________ your brain and experi-
menting with different ways to get you hooked.
6. These methods can sometimes be ________, like Snapcat “streaks,” which reward
you if you __________ at least once a day.
7. When you _____________ use technology, it can be ______________, and you might
miss out on important social events.
8. On social media, people often create a glamorous __________, and aren’t presenting
their ____________ selves.
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Directions: After reading “Are You Addicted to Your Phone?” on pages 10-15 in this issue of Choices, fill in the bubble next to the best answer for each question below.
Quiz: Are You Addicted to Your Phone?
DIRECTIONS: Write your answer in the space below the question. Use complete sentences. 5. What are some of the physical consequences that can occur when people develop an unhealthy relationship with technology?
6. How can spending too much time with your technology impact your social health?
7. What are some of the ways the app developers and game designers try and get you hooked, and why do they want to do that?
1. The chemical message that gets released in your brain when you get a notification on your smart phone is called:
A Oxytocin
B Dopamine
C Testosterone
D Adrenaline
3. What would be the example of a balanced and moderate amount of playing video games?
A No games at all until the weekend.
B Up to three hours a day as long as homework is finished.
C No more than one hour each day
D Only allowed on vacations and school breaks.
2. Why is it important to turn off your screens an hour before bed?
A The notifications might keep you up
B The blue light from the screen makes your brain think it’s daylight
C The temptation to check it can be really hard to resist
D All of the above
4. What is the average amount of time girls spend on social media each day?
A 1 hour and 32 minutes.
B 30 minutes
C 47 minutes
D 25 minutes
